Talent Acquisition Manager

At Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team, our success is driven by exceptional people. We are looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead our recruitment function, shape our talent strategy, and help us attract world-class talent to support our ambitions on and off the track. Working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment, you will play a key role in ensuring we continue to build teams capable of competing at the very highest level.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a forward-looking talent acquisition strategy aligned with the team’s performance goals and workforce plan.
• Partner with senior leadership, HR, and functional heads to anticipate hiring needs and shape future capability pipelines.
• Use data and insights to drive workforce decisions, improve processes, and measure effectiveness.

Talent Attraction & Branding

• Build and lead employer branding initiatives that position the team as an employer of choice across engineering, performance, and business disciplines.
• Partner with our ESG team to support and champion DE&I in all recruitment activity, ensuring diverse representation and inclusive candidate experiences.
• Collaborate with Communications and Marketing to craft compelling candidate messaging, creative content and recruitment campaigns.

Operational Excellence

• Lead, coach, and develop the TA team to deliver high-quality, timely hiring outcomes across all business areas.
• Drive consistency and efficiency in recruitment processes, from briefing and sourcing to selection and offer management.
• Ensure exceptional candidate experience and hiring manager engagement throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Manage and continuously improve tools, systems (ATS/CRM), and reporting to optimize efficiency and data accuracy.

Market Intelligence & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with Emerging Talent and wider team to support strong relationships with external partners, universities, and industry networks to maintain a steady flow of top-tier talent.
• Conduct market mapping, competitor analysis to inform proactive sourcing strategies and maintain critical talent pipelines with proactive management of niche talent.
• Advise hiring managers and senior stakeholders on recruitment best practice, compensation benchmarking, and talent trends.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience in a Talent Acquisition Manager or senior recruitment leadership role in high-performance, fast-paced environment (e.g., motorsport, elite sport, advanced engineering, or technology).
• Strong knowledge of talent acquisition strategy, workforce planning and recruitment best practice.
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching and developing recruitment teams.
• Proven track record of delivering recruitment process improvements and operational excellence.
• Ideally a proven and strong network across engineering, technology, and performance-driven talent markets.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the business.
• Excellent analytical capability with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of workforce analytics and recruitment marketing strategies.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with a passion for delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

Benefits

Investing in your career is paramount. We promote professional and personal development through a provision of learning opportunities and work with you to shape your career and realise your full potential.

As part of our high-performing, collaborative team, you'll enjoy a competitive package, including a discretionary bonus scheme, private healthcare, pension plan, life assurance, TEDSgroup childcare benefits, a cycle-to-work scheme, tech scheme, and car scheme.

You will also have access to our state-of-the-art facilities at the AMR Technology Campus, featuring a new on-site gym with fitness, spin and yoga classes, a bistro café, and restaurant.